The 2020 U.S. Census will include a question about citizenship status, a move that brought swift condemnation from furious Democrats, who said it would terrify illegal aliens and discouraging them from responding, ABC reports.

The population count taken every 10 years is more than an academic exercise. It’s required by the Constitution and used to determine the number of seats each state has in the House as well as how federal funds are distributed to local communities.

It helps communities determine where to build everything from schools and grocery stores to hospitals.

A coalition of Marxist, open-borders loving state attorneys general urged the department last month to not add such a question, saying it could lower participation among illegal aliens and cause a population undercount.

California’s hard-left Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the state will sue the Trump administration over its decision.

“We’re prepared to do what we must to protect California from a deficient Census,” he said. “Including a citizenship question on the 2020 census is not just a bad idea — it is illegal.”

Obviously senile House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi babbled that adding such a question “will inject fear and distrust into vulnerable communities and cause traditionally undercounted communities to be even further under-represented, financially excluded and left behind.”

Given that they’re illegal aliens, one has to wonder why any American politicians would care if they’re not represented.

The Commerce Department said that citizenship data will help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voting rights. It said that between 1820 and 1950, almost every decennial census asked a question on citizenship in some form.

Census counts are taken by mail and by workers walking neighborhoods. The Census Bureau says that the 2010 census drew a massive response, with about 74 percent of the households mailing in forms and the remaining households counted by workers in neighborhoods.

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